accidentary
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]accidentary (comparative more accidentary, superlative most accidentary)
- (obsolete) Accidental; occurring by chance; occasional. [16th–18th c.]
- (obsolete) Logically accidental; non-essential. [16th–18th c.]
Synonyms
[edit]- (occurring by chance): causeless, incidental, unintentional; see also Thesaurus:accidental
References
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “accidentary”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.